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Computing (enter Microcomputer Services Wants We need savvy students lo answer computing questions for students, faculty and staff. Starting pay: • Micro Sendees employees - $8/hr. • Departmental consultants - $9/hr. Work study not required Inquire at 151 Gray son Hall See http://micro.uoregon.edu/jobs for more information. Open to the general public Attendance is FREE ■■ author of TONIGHT! Oct. 5th,7:30 p.m. Author Reading & Booksigning Browsing Room, Knight Library OREGON Get jour 15 minutes of fame! Have your own original work published in the new weekly “15 Minutes” section of Pulse • Poems • Drawings • Weekly I'ulls • Anecdotes • Philosophies • Photographs • Becipes • Song Lyrics • Quotes Drop off submissions to EMU Suite 300 or e-mail them to mhande@gladstone.uoregon.edu. Be sure to indicate that it’s for “15 Minutes.” Please Note: Entries will not be returned. Please limit your work to 100 words. No anonymous work will be accepted. We reserve the right to edit submissions for length, clarity, grammar, style and libel. GOING OVERSEAS? keep up on campus life with the Oregon daily emerald now available on the world wide web ■ www. dailyemerald. com Calendar Thursday, Oct. 5 Student Forum Guest Artist: Valerie Zamora, a classically trained concert pianist who is also deaf, performs and discusses the challenges of her career and those of other disabled artists. 1 p.m., Beall Concert Hall. Free. Author Event: Award-winning San Francisco writer Ruthanne Lum Mc Cunn reads from and autographs copies of her new novel, "The Moon Pearl.” 7:30 p.m., Browsing Room, Knight Library. Free. Town Hall Meeting: This week's topic is "The Only Real Difference Between Gore/Bush: Nader!" 7 p.m., Lane Vic tory 2000 office, 228 E. 11th. Free. Theater: “Hurlvburly,” about three Hollywood men and their exploits, is the featured play. 8 p.m., Arena The atre. $3. Police Commission Meeting: Use of Force Subcommittee is holding a pub lic forum to discuss scope of work and community participation. 11:30 a.m,, City Hall, 777 Pearl Street, EPD Con ference Room 109. Free. Math continued from page 1A 111, Math 112, Math 251 and Math 315. Math 111, College Algebra, can pose challenges for University stu dents because the pace of learning numbers, formulas and graphs is swift. ■‘We’re trying to teach in a term what would be taught a year in high school,” Koch said. Math 315, Elementary Analysis, is open to math majors only and it is an other common trouble zone for stu dents. The class serves as the bridge between lower 200-level math cours es and the upper-level courses loaded with more difficult material. There are several misconceptions of why certain students excel in math while others are left behind. Koch said one common miscon ception is that math success de pends on a student’s gender, when in fact both females and males strug gle with numbers and graphs. However, Koch said he thinks the two sexes react differently when they are having problems under standing the material. “Girls tend to be more vocal with their problems, but males don’t ask for help as much when they need it,” Koch said.Vitulli does not think one gender is better at understand ing the material than the other, but she does think that females tend to be less confident in their skills. “They don’t realize they’re at the same place, usually, in the class that the males are,” she said. There are ways to calm fears and improve the academic performance of students who suffer from math anxieties. “After all, even mathematicians get discouraged,” Koch said. Sasha Harlov iunior computer science major. she loves math and offers some ad Le for those less enthusiastic about the subject. “Negative attitudes are what will hurt you most,” she said. “You have to get rid cf ;-v> . prejudice against math mood a 10 do well.” Students who underestimate their math skills should remember to remain confident. “Get a reality check from your pro fessor before you dismiss yourself as not having what it takes,” Vitulli said. Other advice to keep in mind: Don’t be afraid to ask questions, take classes in which active participa tion is encouraged, remain consis tent with credit loads, stay on top of homework and remember to take deep breaths. Hintz suggests not putting off math requirements until senior year. ( ( Negative attitudes are what will hurt you most. You have to get rid of your prejudice against math in order to do well. Sasha Harlow junior Computer and Information Science yy “Your skills will be rusty by then,” he said. Also, students should avoid jumping ahead of their math placement test scores. “The test exists for a reason,” Hintz said. Koch said students who need help with math classes should take advan tage of professors’ office hours. Pri vate tutors can be located through Academic Learning Services. Jail funding continued from page 3A prisons they’re increasing it,” he said. Kutcher agreed prisons are crowded, but said that’s because the county is convicting people who don’t need to be convicted. “The major problem is there’s a bunch of people in jail who should n’t be there because of victimless crimes,” he said. Victimless crimes, in Kutcher’s opinion, mostly include drug posses sion. He argued the county should look at other crimes instead of prose cuting the “victimless” ones. “Crimes against our environment they don’t take very seriously,” he said. “There’s crimes all over our county against air and water that go ignored.” Not only does Kutcher see the prisons as unnecessary, he views them as money-making machines for “the big construction companies that buy politicians.” He said their purpose could just as easily be achieved through preventive pro grams rather than incarceration, but the system just perpetuates itself. “The criminal justice system is you just keep building the jails. They’ll fill up - they’ll go out and find the pris oners to fill them,” he said. Oregon My Emerald P.O.Box 3159, Eugene OR 97403 The Oregon Daily Emerald is published daily Monday through Friday during the school year and Tuesday and Thursday during the summer by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co. Inc., at the Univer sity of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. 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